It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to. - Shia LaBeouf
What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work. - Anthony Hopkins
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value. - Demi Moore
Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter? - Demi Moore
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not. - Jack Nicholson
When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions. - Nicolas Cage
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.
The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we love ad the better will our work.
When you are doing any work.. do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
I will always find my light. No question. And if I don't, I'll know, because my dad will be the first person to call me and say, like, 'You need to have him bring another 2K in,' and 'Why aren't you using this sort of lighting gel?' The crew guys know that it's where I grew up.
There couldn't possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: 'Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s'; 'African American, urban, pretty, early 30s'; 'Caucasian, blonde, modern girl next door'. Every role has a label; every casting is for something specific.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.
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